The Bathroom Scales

The Bathroom Scales By Elton Camp There they are, just daring us to step on And see which way our weight has gone The bathroom mirror shows the sad fact But the authority of a read-out it does lack And while in there we are entirely out of luck Ten pounds for clothing cannot try to deduct But we can still imagine there’s some defect That what the scales say is not really correct Finally we step on, dreading how they may read And, sure enough, it isn’t what we hope or need So, we resolve that much harder we will try it And this time we will carefully follow our diet But until we have enough time to lose some weight It’s better to put the scales in the garage in a crate